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of New York city, in company with the entomologist of the department 

 of public works, last September, I found that the worst enemy to 

 the shade trees was a foreign insect, Tieuzera pyrina, Fig. 8, whose 

 native home is Europe, and even yet is not known to occur 

 in this country except in the vicinity of New York city. It 

 is supposed to have been introduced in the cargo of some European 



Fig. 6. — Sinuate Pflar Borer in Seckel pear tree. Bark shovviug burrows of larva one fourth natural 



Bize.— After Smith. 



steamer, about 1880, at Hoboken, New Jersey. It is known to attack 

 eighty three kinds of tree and shrub and the most of our fruit trees are in- 

 cluded in the number. Eastern entomologists last summer assured me 

 that, so far as they were aware, there was nothing to prevent this pest, 

 also a borer, from being sent out over the country in nursery stock. The 



